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#writing

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #writing




The purpose of writing is to hold a mirror to nature, but too much today is written from small mirrors in vanity cases. ↗


— John Mason Brown


#nature

I am Envy...I cannot read and therefore wish all books burned. ↗


— Christopher Marlowe


#burning #envy #human-nature #marlowe #writing

Her life had been too safe to need courage, and too easy to develop resolve. ↗


— Stephen T. Harper


#fantastic-prose #just-plain-wow-writing #courage

Our reality is influenced by our notions about reality, regardless of the nature of those notions ↗


— Joseph Chilton Pearce


#nature

...the grocery store poets do everything they can to encourage us in our willing suspension of disbelief. ↗


— Michael Pollan


#nature

Fairy tales are rife with transformation — from beast to handsome prince, from dirty scullery maid to well-dressed princess. It is perhaps no coincidence that nature in the Cinderella stories facilitates transformation, for nature itself is a changeable thing, from season to season, from a sunny day to rain, from an egg to a flying bird in a matter of weeks. (Source: "The Nature of Cinderella".) ↗


— Marie Rutkoski


#fairy-tales #stories #telling-tales #writing #nature

The hard core of morality and even of religion seems to me to be just what makes good comedy possible...Where there is no norm, nothing can be ridiculous, except for a brief moment of unbalanced provincialism in which we may laugh at the merely unfamiliar. Unless there is something about which the author is never ironical, there can be no true irony in the work. ↗


— C.S. Lewis


#humor #irony #morality #principles #writing

As writers we intend to make a difference, to alter people's lives for the greater good. . .this is why we write, to have an impact on society, to put a personal stamp on history. . .Art and literature are the legacies we leave to succeeding generations. We'll be forgotten, but our books and essays, our stories and poems can survive us. . . ↗


— Lee Gutkind


#writers-on-writing #writing #writing-life #art

Why write wrong if the writing won’t right the wrong? (90) ↗


— Sandra M. Gilbert


#grieving #writing #death

You always get more respect when you don't have a happy ending. ↗


— Julia Quinn


#writing #respect






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